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Yuki could barely control her emotions during class how stupid she was to be provoked by Tsuki! She wondered why Tsuki-kun seemed to hate Kaname-sama so much, did they already know one another…
Could he be trusted?
She turned and glanced at Zero's seat, it was empty, usually the both of them could be found in one or more classes sleeping off the evening's strenuous activities but today Zero was gone….
How odd… Maybe because of the upcoming winter break?!
The bell rang and she fled the classroom for the Moon Dorm, she had a twenty-minute break before her final class of the day. She hoped that the vampires were not yet active, though the sun was growing lower in the sky.
Knocking on the large oaken door, the pale and dreary form of Aido opened the door, his heavily lidded eyes widened in surprise.
"Ah Yuki-san what brings you here?" he asked pleasantly though he made no move to let her in.
"I am here to see President Kuran on official business." She said promptly, she hoped that Aido couldn't see through her lie.
He tilted his head to one side "You know that the President is not feeling well…"
"Yes I do, but it is very important."
Aido shrugged "Very well then come in. You will find the others are still sleeping, thank Kami-sama for you." He said nastily
Yuki always felt like a heavy shroud was pulled over her eyes when she came here. It was always still and smelt of flowers. Everything here was so antique, like the students of the Moon Dorm were living in a time loop… Away from modern times…. Shunning humans like the light they abhorred so.
"Up here" Yuki realized as they ascended the massive stairs that she had never been any farther then the sitting parlor now below them. Aido strolled softly across the landing his feet making no sound on the thick carpet. They went down the landing till they came to a polished mahogany door were Aido hesitatingly lifted his hand and rapped softly.
A faint voice came from inside Yuki could not make out the words
"Yuki-san is here to speak with you." There was a long silence and then a few more words she couldn't quite catch.
"You can stay with him for only a few minutes." Aido said with one of his malevolent smiles, unlocking the door with a heavy key and she stepped through into the twilight strangeness of Kaname Kuran's room.
In here it smelt like sandalwood and jasmine the heavy curtains were pulled tightly across the window. Paintings that hung on the walls were shadowed and darkened with a patina of age. A few candles lit the room with a deep amber glow.
Lying in a bed that shamed even royalty was Kaname Kuran looking pale like the moonlight.
The gossamer curtains dyed the purest purple hid his expression from her view, stepping up the small dais she saw a chair had been laid out for her and she sat.
"Yuki, we both know you did not come here on official business" he said softly. His voice was faint like the wind had barely brushed her cheek.
"I was worried about you" she said unable to look at him lying there his dark hair askew, thin white shirt unbuttoned revealing smooth skin that was shiny with perspiration.
"You shouldn't be, it is rare but purebloods do manage to get the flu. Maybe because of this terrible weather we've been having."
Yuki now turned to him her lips parted in shock "Vampires can get sick?!"
She watched his rosy lips twitch with a smile; his cheeks were flushed with something like a fever.
Yuki realized that he was one of the most handsome men she had ever met…
"When you come from a family as old as mine, sometimes these trifling things can be quite dangerous. But I assure you I shall be well in a few days, don't worry about me. Keep an eye on your friend Kiryuu-san instead, I know how you like to tease him."
Yuki pulled back the purple curtain and beheld not sheets that Kaname Kuran lay in but roses, hundreds of roses. The smell enveloped her and she stared
"N-nani?" Kaname smiled at the look of confusion on her face, a single primrose blossom sat on his chest, the thorns puncturing his flesh… When she reached out to touch it….
"That suppresses my vampirism it will have to remain there until I am well again or I will die."
Her delicate hand froze just over his chest and as it retreated he felt her trembling.
Kaname reached out and touched her cheek; he was so weak from the primrose this action was even as effort.
His fingertips strayed to her lips "Yuki you are too kind. Even bringing me a gift." His eyes left her face and focused on the small box in her lap.
"They are chocolates" she whispered, her breath warm against his thumb. Kaname closed his eyes hearing how her heartbeat accelerated. Her chocolates were the only ones worth eating that day in February; they were the ones that tasted the sweetest. Because… Kaname felt his vision swim he was growing tired again.
"Feed me one" he politely asked his hand slipping away from her face and thumping lightly back into the bed of roses.
Unwrapping the box she took out the one she had filled with caramel, she was most proud of this one and pressed it to his lips.
"Yuki-san have you finished molesting our sick President yet?!" Aido called loudly waking up the whole house in the process. Yuki nearly choked yet she watched as Kaname slowly parted his lips and the heart shaped chocolate disappeared into his moist, waiting mouth.
His lips were so soft…
How could he be so erotic?! Yuki thought before turning into a swirly mass of goo.
"Aido" Kaname called licking his lips, he watched Yuki's face turn an even deeper shade of purple, so deep it almost matched his curtains.
"Yuki is done here" he added
Aido opened the door and escorted the limp form of Yuki Cross out of the room, the box of chocolates forgotten, the questions she had wanted to ask gone.
Aido wondered quite happily to himself if the poor girl would ever recover, Kaname was truly a tease whenever he was ill. But illness in his family was few and far between; this was maybe the second time in three human lifetimes that Aido had seen Kaname like this.
It pleased him to know that Kaname was bent on tempting this girl to her Death.
"Did he answer all your questions Yuki-san?" Aido asked solicitously as he guided her out the Moon Dorm door.
Yuki nodded listlessly "Excellent, well have a good evening then" and the door promptly shut…
Yuki took a deep breath, the vision of President Kaname Kuran kept playing over and over in her head.
Oh Kami….
"You're a little neko you know" the cool baritone of Zero made her look up
"I had to cut biology to come and find you."
Yuki realized somewhere in the back of her mind that she had missed almost a full period of her final class of the day.
And she had spent it with…
"I'm sorry Zero" she replied
Zero looked strangely at her, she looked like…
"Did you finally make out with your beloved?"
He thought Yuki would faint "N-no nothing like that something worse…" she cried swirly eyed.
Zero suddenly tensed "You didn't…"
Yuki eyes widened into saucers "Kami no! Not that! I went to visit him and uh I ended up feeding him the chocolate I made…. It…was…interesting"
Zero decided that he wouldn't press her on the subject, nor ask her where she got the time to make said chocolates
"I apologize for not being there for you today. There was some business with Toya that I had to finish, I expect that you are angry with me…"
He looked sincerely into her eyes "I was frustrated but it was nothing I couldn't handle." She said with a smile, Zero noticed that Yuki was starting to recover.
Amazing, maybe he had underestimated her after all…
And for the first time in a long time Zero genuinely smiled, happy for them to be just like this even though he knew it couldn't last for long…
When he became a full-fledged vampire he would…
The smile quickly left his lips and turning he walked back to the Sun Dorm where Yuki followed… All the while in the topmost window of the Moon Dorm a figure stood there watching
"I might not have to do much if things keep going this way."
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